Chandana Dixit's Creativity Channel

Can You Trust Your Creative Instincts? with Rogelio Puente-Díaz

How do we know when an idea is genuinely creative? And can we trust our instincts when deciding which ideas are worth pursuing?

In this episode of Creativity Dialogues with Chandana Dixit, researcher Rogelio Puente-Díaz joins us to explore the psychology of creative thinking, from the beliefs that shape our confidence to the judgments we make about our own ideas.

We discuss why some ideas feel promising but fail to deliver, how culture influences what we recognize as creative, and whether we can learn to become better at evaluating ideas. Along the way, we explore creative identity, the role of parents and educators in nurturing independent thinking, and the workplace conditions that help ideas develop.

Creativity isn't just about generating possibilities. It's also about learning to recognize their potential.

A conversation for anyone curious about how we think, create, and decide what makes an idea worth pursuing.

Creativity Dialogues with Chandana Dixit brings together researchers, artists, and practitioners to explore creativity, inspiration, consciousness, and the processes that shape our lives.

Where do our ideas really come from, and how much control do we have over them?

In this episode of Creativity Dialogues with Chandana Dixit, Michael Hanchett Hanson explores the complex relationship between human agency, imagination, and the ideas that shape our lives. We often think of ideas as things we deliberately generate, but what if the process is far less under our control than we assume?

Drawing on his work in creativity studies, Michael invites us to reconsider how ideas emerge, how our experiences and social environments influence what we think, and what it means to be an active participant in our own thinking.

We explore the nature of creative thought, the balance between intention and spontaneity, and whether understanding how ideas arise can change the way we approach our own creative lives.

In this conversation, we explore:

How much control do we really have over our ideas?

Where do new ideas come from?

How do our experiences and social environments shape our thinking?

What is the relationship between intention and imagination?

Can we deliberately influence the way we think and create?

What does it mean to take an active role in our own creative process?

Join us for a conversation about the mysteries of the mind, the origins of ideas, and what it means to be an agent in our own thinking.

About Michael Hanchett Hanson

Michael Hanchett Hanson is a scholar of creativity whose work explores the psychological, social, and cultural dimensions of human imagination and creative activity.

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What if the biggest obstacle to your creativity isn’t a lack of ideas, but the way your brain is working?

In this episode of Creativity Dialogues, I speak with Dr. David Beversdorf, a neurologist and researcher whose work explores the relationship between the brain, cognition, stress, and creativity.

We talk about what happens in the brain when we create, why stress can sometimes interfere with creative thinking, and why the conditions surrounding us can influence our ability to make unusual connections and see possibilities in new ways.

We also explore a deeper question: Is creativity something the brain simply produces, or does creativity emerge from the way we engage with the world?

This conversation brings neuroscience into dialogue with the everyday experience of creating, offering a fascinating look at what may help or hinder our creative potential.

In this episode:

• How the brain supports creative thinking

• Why stress can affect creativity

• The relationship between attention, cognition, and creative insight

• Why unusual connections matter for creativity

• What neuroscience can, and cannot, tell us about creativity

• How we might create conditions that allow our minds to be more creative

If you enjoy conversations about creativity, the mind, art, science, and what it means to create, subscribe to Creativity Dialogues with Chandana Dixit.

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What makes a lyric stay with us long after the song has ended?

In this episode of Creativity Dialogues with Chandana Dixit, lyricist Sudhakar Sharma takes us behind the words that have become part of our memories. We talk about his journey, his understanding of lyrics, and what happens when a thought, emotion or experience turns into a line that connects with millions.

What is the secret behind writing words that people remember? Does a lyric begin with an idea, an emotion, a situation, or simply a moment of observation? And how does a lyricist find the right words when so much has to be said in so little space?

Sudhakar Sharma shares stories from his creative journey, his approach to songwriting, and his thoughts on what makes a lyric meaningful and memorable.

🎙️ Watch the full conversation and discover the lyricist’s secret.

Creativity Dialogues with Chandana Dixit explores creativity, art, inspiration, consciousness and the many ways human beings bring ideas into the world.

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What if creativity begins before we even know what we are trying to create?

In this episode of Creativity Dialogues, I speak with philosopher Bence Nanay about the hidden beginnings of creative thought. We explore what happens before an idea becomes conscious, how our attention shapes what we notice, and why creativity may be rooted in processes that happen beneath the surface of deliberate thought.

Bence brings together philosophy, psychology, perception, and aesthetics to ask a deeper question: what is actually happening when something new begins to take shape in the mind?

We talk about unconscious creativity, attention, imagination, artistic experience, and the surprising ways our minds can work creatively before we can put an idea into words.

A conversation about creativity, perception, and the mysterious space between not knowing and knowing.

Guest: Bence Nanay, philosopher and author

Host: Chandana Dixit

Podcast: Creativity Dialogues

Creativity Is Part of a Flourishing Life | Linda Zagzebski

What does creativity have to do with living a good and flourishing life?

In this episode of Creativity Dialogues, philosopher Linda Zagzebski explores creativity beyond the production of new ideas or works. We talk about creativity as part of human life, how it relates to flourishing, and what it means to develop our capacities in ways that make a life meaningful.

A conversation about creativity, human potential, virtue, and what it means to live well.

Featuring Linda Zagzebski, Professor of Philosophy and George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the University of Oklahoma.

Creativity, Innovation and the Courage to Think Differently | Dr. Raghunath Mashelkar

What does it take to create something that has never been done before?

In this episode of Creativity Dialogues, Chandana Dixit speaks with Dr. Raghunath Mashelkar, one of India’s most respected scientists and innovators, a Padma Vibhushan awardee and former Director General of CSIR.

From growing up with very little to becoming one of India’s leading scientific voices, Dr. Mashelkar shares insights from a remarkable life shaped by curiosity, perseverance, education and the courage to challenge conventional thinking.

The conversation explores creativity and innovation, affordable excellence, Gandhian engineering, scientific leadership, traditional knowledge, education, failure and the importance of pursuing ideas before the world recognises their value.

A thoughtful conversation about what it means to think differently, create with purpose, and turn ideas into meaningful change.

About the Host:

Chandana Dixit is a celebrated Bollywood playback singer, Hindustani classical singer, artist and PhD researcher in creativity. Through Creativity Dialogues, she explores creativity, ideas, inspiration and the human creative process with artists, scientists, thinkers and innovators.

Kant and Creativity: Genius, Imagination and the Limits of Rules

Can creativity be taught? What makes something genuinely creative rather than simply new?

In his Critique of Judgment, Immanuel Kant offered one of the most influential philosophical accounts of creativity. His concept of genius describes a capacity to produce work for which no determinate rule can be given. Yet, as Kant points out, originality alone is not enough. There can be “original nonsense.”

In this episode, we explore Kant’s ideas of genius, aesthetic judgment, the free play of imagination, and the relationship between creativity and rules. We also ask what his philosophy can tell us about the nature of creative practice and why genuinely creative work can challenge existing standards while eventually creating new ones.

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In this episode of Creativity Dialogues, host Chandana Dixit sits down with Dr. Phil Lopes, Assistant Professor at Lusófona University and researcher at the Human-Environment Interaction Lab, whose work explores the fascinating intersection of artificial intelligence, digital games, human creativity, affective computing, and game design. Phil shares his journey through artificial intelligence and digital games, from developing creative computational systems to researching how machines can participate in and influence human creative processes. Together, they explore a fundamental question for our technological age: Can machines actually make us more creative?

The conversation takes us into the world of computational creativity, procedural content generation, human-machine co-creativity, game design, and artificial intelligence. Phil explains how computers can generate unexpected ideas, disrupt our habitual ways of thinking, and expand the possibilities available to human creators. His research on mixed-initiative systems examines how humans and machines can contribute together to the creative process. They also explore how emotions and physiological responses can be incorporated into digital environments, and how technologies using signals such as heart rate, electrodermal activity, and brain imaging can help games respond to human experience.

Whether you are an artist, game designer, technologist, researcher, entrepreneur, educator, or simply curious about the future of creativity, this episode offers a fascinating look at what happens when human imagination meets artificial intelligence. If you enjoy conversations about creativity, artificial intelligence, psychology, technology, games, neuroscience, philosophy, and human potential, subscribe to Creativity Dialogues for more conversations with thinkers and creators exploring what it means to be creative.

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Creativity Dialogues Turns ONE! | The Interviewer Gets Interviewed | Chandana Dixit

One year. Dozens of conversations. Countless perspectives on what it means to create.

For the 1st Anniversary of Creativity Dialogues, the roles are reversed. This time, Chandana Dixit, the host who has spent the past year asking others about creativity, art, inspiration, identity, and the creative process, steps into the interviewee’s chair.

In this special reverse interview, Chandana reflects on the journey behind Creativity Dialogues, the people she has met, the ideas that have challenged her thinking, and what a year of conversations has taught her about creativity.

What happens when the person who is always asking the questions has to answer them herself?

In this candid and wide-ranging conversation, Chandana talks about her journey as a Bollywood playback singer, Hindustani classical vocalist, artist, teacher and PhD researcher in creativity, and how these seemingly different creative paths have shaped her understanding of the creative process.

She also explores some of the questions at the heart of her research:

✨ What actually makes something creative?

✨ What can artists teach us about living creatively?

✨ How have a year of conversations changed the way she thinks about creativity?

✨ And what does she hope Creativity Dialogues will become in the years ahead?

This episode is both a celebration of one year of Creativity Dialogues and a moment of reflection on the journey so far. From music and art to philosophy, history, science, spirituality and human experience, Creativity Dialogues has explored creativity from many different perspectives. This time, we turn the lens inward. After a year of asking questions, it’s finally my turn to answer them.

🎤 About Chandana Dixit

Chandana Dixit is a Bollywood playback singer, Hindustani classical vocalist, artist and PhD researcher in Creativity. Known for songs including Husn Hai Suhana from Coolie No. 1 and Sheher Ki Ladki from Rakshak, she has performed internationally and continues to explore creativity through music, visual art, research and conversation.

Through Creativity Dialogues, Chandana brings together artists, scholars, innovators, writers, musicians and thinkers to explore the many dimensions of creativity and what it means to live a creative life.

Subscribe to Creativity Dialogues for more conversations exploring creativity, art, ideas and the human experience.

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